Re: [Algorithms] Algorithm for determining 'word difficulty'

[John R. <jra...@gm...>]

Yes, I'm actually using Scabble's score for the game itself; however that
only gives you indication of letter frequency.  The more I think about it, I
believe the perfect solution is to generate a database of word frequencies
against a number of books with a known 'reading level'.  I'm pretty much
sure that is the best clean solution to the problem.

John

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jonathan Sauer <jon...@gm...>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > Any thoughts on an algorithm which could more or less automatically
> > score the entire English language by 'difficultly to spell' and
> > 'difficulty to recognize'?  Assuming you have as input all of the
> > data in a standard dictionary and thesaurus?
>
> Maybe you could use Scrabble's scoring to rank words.
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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